Blindspot (2015–2020)
5/10
Fantasy-Violence Tattoo-Solving Soap Series
19 February 2017
This show is so riddled with implausibilities and continuity stuff-ups. Like most overly violent American crime series, there is too much gratuitous killing of extras, particularly 'civilians' and, disturbingly, police officers. Huge gun fights where all the bad guys die and a token flesh wound for the heroes. Long savage fist fights with minimal injuries to the heroes. Small nicks and cuts on faces that heal overnight - in reality they would be there for several weeks. Preposterous solving of the tattoo riddles at precisely the right time every episode to solve the crime that is just about to take place. Improbable relationships in the work place for all the main characters. Genius computer woman who can type at 500 words a minute and knows everything from IED defusing to on-the-fly EPROM burning via mobile phone call... Pitching the CIA as deadly rivals of the FBI, really.

The writers are enjoying themselves coming up with this stuff, the actors seem half-hearted in their roles. Why did they even bother. It would have been far better as a first person shooter X-Box game story-line.
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